Health Information Specialist - Full Time (40 hours/week) presso Kittitas Valley Healthcare

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.  We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education.  We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

Benefits - KV Healthcare

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Health Information Specialist is primarily responsible for the maintenance, auditing, disclosure, and release of the medical record in both paper and electronic format, including but not limited to: scanning, capturing, and uploading documents; analyzing the chart for accuracy and completeness; and reconciling and destruction of paper charts and records.

What is required...

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in a Healthcare-related field; OR Additional training/education in a healthcare discipline; OR Prior experience in a health information management department with an electronic health record
• Demonstrated proficiency with computer systems and programs, including all Microsoft Office programs

What is preferred...

• At least two years of customer service experience
• Successful completion of a medical terminology course
• Fluent in two or more languages

Wage:  Wage range currently starts at $18.91/hour and goes up to $28.67/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.  

FTE:  1.0 = 40 hours/week

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Benefits:  This position is benefits eligible 

Union Status:  This is a non-union covered position